______ send officials abroad for training, I think it is better for the government to directly admit people who have studied and worked overseas.
| A．Other than | B．Rather than | C．Less than | D．More than |
147. If a beard is a sign of smartness, the _____ will be a Socrates (苏格拉底). (prov.)
| A．sheep | B．lamb | C．goat | D．God |
146. Last night one of my classmates took the gloves to me over the answers to the maths problem. The underlined part probably means _____.
| A．quarreled with me | B．talked with me |
| C．took my gloves | D．gave me a pair of gloves |
145. What on _____ do you mean by saying so?
| A．earth | B．world | C．land | D．Ground |
144. The reason why the two _____ cannot speak _____ language is that they were born in America and were brought up in a Japanese family.
| A．Germans; German | B．Germen; the German |
| C．Germen; German | D．Germans; the German |
143. We often hear the old man sighed with feeling “The younger don't know what hard work it is!”
| A．girls | B．boys | C．generation | D．Parents |